LENScience Special Events

LENScience Special Events are student programmes arranged to coincide with national science events, international conferences and visiting scientists. Programmes bring students and scientists together, are curriculum linked and in most cases supported with teacher professional development.

Special Events 2010

Nutrigenomics is the study of the response of humans to food. Genomic, proteomic and metabolomic approaches are used in this work. The goal of nutrigenomics is to develop foods that can be matched to individual human genotypes to benefit the health of the individual.The workshop will allow students to explore the FOLATE issue and find out how nutrigenomics can help society understand issues such as this.

The workshop has been developed and will be co-presented by LENScience teachers and scientists from the Department of Nutrition at the University of Auckland.Schools will be provided with potential tasks for AS90769 and AS90714 based on this context.